I, for the sake of brevity, have listed Richard Chevenix Trench simply as the Archbishop of Dublin. Yet I wrote seven other descriptins in my notes as I prepared this post:

Bible Translator;

Scholar;

Linguist;

Theologian;

Poet;

Historian; and

Hymn Writer.

Trench, born in Dublin, Ireland, graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1829. Among his school friends was Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Trench, ordained a Deacon in 1832, served as the Curate of Hadleigh (1832-1833) then as the Curate of Suffolk (1833-1835). Trench’s career as a priest (from 1835) was quite interesting. He was: